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Protecting Tawaki, the rainforest penguin

Wed, 21/06/2017

Fiordland Penguins, also known as Tawaki, are about to arrive on New Zealand’s West Coast beaches.

I can’t believe we still have to raise funds to...

Tue, 20/06/2017

Rory Crawford, BirdLife International Marine Programme Manager, blogs about BirdLife's latest work to save penguins from extinction.

Worldwide

Every penguin, ranked: which species are we most...

Mon, 24/04/2017

10 of the world’s 18 species of penguin are threatened with extinction. Discover where they live, and the threats they face, in this illustrated list of the world’s species

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The penguin that paddles in paradise

Tue, 11/04/2017

No huddles please for the Galapagos Penguin; this tropical birdcalls the warm waters of the equator its home. But life in paradise is anything but a walk in the sun...

Americas Ecuador

World’s largest protected marine area to shelter...

Fri, 28/10/2016

BirdLife International welcomes the news that the pristine waters of Ross Sea, Antartica, will become the world’s largest protected marine area.

Worldwide Antarctica

Saving the Humboldt Penguin in Central Chile

Mon, 16/11/2015

Please help CODEFF achieve on the ground conservation by supporting their

Americas Chile

World’s biggest seabird tracking database shows...

Tue, 27/10/2015

At the World Seabird Conference BirdLife celebrate the Global Seabird Tracking Database helping to conserve some of the planet’s most emblematic birds and reaching 5 million data points. Many insights from some of the most traveled species on our planet. .

Worldwide South Africa

Penguin parade at risk

Mon, 02/09/2013

Australia's famous penguin parades on Philip and French Islands - which are nationally significant shorebird feeding and roosting sites - face the growing risk of a devastating oil spill, if Victoria’s controversial Western Port development is approved, new research shows. “Oil and birds don’t mix,” said BirdLife Australia’s Shorebirds Program Manager Dr Golo Maurer.

Pacific Australia

Celebrate World Penguin Day -and the world...

Thu, 25/04/2013

BirdLife International and the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research have joined the British Antarctic Survey to compile a “tracking database” on six penguin species. The project is funded by the UK Government’s Darwin Initiative.

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Gentoo Penguins will benefit from this new Marine Protected Area (Paddy Gallagher; flickr.com)

Massive Marine Protected Area announced in the...

Thu, 18/04/2013

An enormous Marine Protected Area, one of the largest in the world, has been declared in South Africa’s sub-Antarctic territory, the Prince Edward Islands.

Africa

Foiling climate change

Sun, 01/04/2012

After seeding the sea with iron filings to create a carbon sink, and giant mirrors which reflect the sun’s heat back into space, comes a new geo-engineering solution which aims to maintain penguin breeding colonies in the Antarctic at their optimum temperature.

Worldwide

Oil Spill update from New Zealand

Mon, 19/12/2011

The last two months of 2011 brought some good news for Forest & Bird (BirdLife in New Zealand) in the wake of the country’s worst ever maritime environmental disaster in October.

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